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Allan C. Nichols
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Despite Preannounced Weak Margins, Bouygues Reports Better 3Q Revenue Growth; Shares Undervalued

Bouygues' preannounced margin shortfall in the construction business didn’t prevent the firm from reporting better nine-month revenue growth than we expected. However, just as we didn’t lower our EUR 45 per share fair value estimate then, we don’t expect to raise it now. We continue to believe the company has no moat and the shares are undervalued.
The firm reported strong third-quarter revenue growth of 9.3% year over year. However, part of this was from acquisitions and positive currency movem...
Underlying
Bouygues SA

Bouygues is a global industrial group engaged in designing, building and operating structures in public and private buildings, transportation infrastructure and energy and communication networks. Co. operates in three sectors - Construction (Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Immobilier and Colas), Media (TF1) and Telecom (Bouygues Telecom). Construction is engaged in the design and maintenance of projects in the areas of building, civil works, energies and services; Media offers activities covering the audiovisual sector; and Telecom offers mobile broadband services and prepaid card services for smart phones, as well as a range of services including telemessaging, voice mail and WAP

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Allan C. Nichols

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